Staff Engineer, AI-Driven Cross‑Team Platform

Gallup; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Gallup is seeking a staff engineer to partner with the head of engineering and influence multiple teams across the organization. You will mentor senior engineers, set standards for AI-enabled development, and collaborate with AI Infrastructure and Data Platform to modernize shared foundations.

You’ll drive architectural decisions, surface new tools and patterns, and translate strategy into concrete guidance that teams can act on. The role requires on-site presence in Omaha three days a week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• At least eight years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience mentoring engineers and aligning teams without direct management.
• Hands-on AI-assisted development experience.
• Strong system design and architecture fundamentals.
• Experience partnering with an engineering leader in advisory capacity.
• On-site at Gallup’s Omaha office at least three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the head of engineering as a technical thought partner across multiple concurrent initiatives, not tied to a single team’s backlog.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineering managers, tech leads and senior engineers across teams, especially on architecture decisions with cross-team consequences
• Bring effective AI-assisted engineering practices into the teams you work with, using AI where it genuinely speeds things up and keeping human judgment as the check
• Lead a community of practice for senior engineers and tech leads, creating space for shared standards and technical growth outside the reporting line
• Hunt down emerging tools, techniques and architectural patterns before anyone asks you to, and bring concrete, evaluated recommendations back to engineering leadership
• Shape what gets built next and how we’ll know it worked, championing data and instrumentation as the basis for those calls
• Step into critical initiatives as a hands-on contributor when the problem calls for it, from early design through to production
• Translate high-level technical strategy into concrete guidance teams can act on

Skills

Cross-team influence

AI fluency

Mentorship

System design

Communication

Independent thinker

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent experience

Tools

Auth0

Okta

Job description

Gallup is seeking a staff engineer to partner with the head of engineering and influence multiple teams across the organization. You will mentor senior engineers, set standards for AI-enabled development, and collaborate with AI Infrastructure and Data Platform to modernize shared foundations.

You’ll drive architectural decisions, surface new tools and patterns, and translate strategy into concrete guidance that teams can act on. The role requires on-site presence in Omaha three days a week.